BELIEVING BROKENNESS Episode 8

THE BROKENNESS: Our Emotional, Physical & Spiritual CONDITION

LIFE AMONG THE ASHES   

The Paths that we oft’ travel

are full of loss and pain

The Hearts of all the Broken

cry tears that fall like rain

It seems we are surrounded
by Death at every door

And Hope beyond the turmoil

is what we’re searching for

Lost, with no direction

isolated by our pain

we hide within our Loneliness

and feed our sense of Shame

Desperate in our Darkness

we search for meaning there

We feel Anger and Confusion

How could a Good God care?

How can we find rejoicing

amidst these trials of grief?

How do we mend our Brokenness?

When will we find relief?

When finally we reach our end

and look to find the Light

God’s beams of Love pour down on us 

and hold us in our Fight

Bridges of Compassion 

reaching over thorny trails

bring comfort to our empty souls

His Hands first bore the nails

Our Grief He took upon Himself

our Sin and Sickness too 

He took our Shame upon the Cross

He carried these for you

Life among the Ashes

begins with just one Breath

A gift from our Creator

Overcoming Death!

For in this Breath, this moment

we are given Life and Choice

Our Suffering and Sorrow
will never steal our Voice

Compassion for the Hurting

is the Prize we will receive

And Passion with a Purpose

to help Rescue those in need

BELIEVING BROKENNESS  Episode 8
 
THE BROKENNESS - Our Emotional, Physical & Spiritual CONDITION

	We live in a world of Brokenness. Broken Relationships, Broken Lives, and Broken Hearts all have affected our ability to experience God’s LOVE in the midst of our own Suffering circumstances. We are Spiritually Blind. We are Living The Broken. We are Believing Brokenness. We Believe it with our whole Heart. It is all we KNOW. It is WHO we are. It is who we have BECOME.

	Our Brokenness defines us. It is our Story. It is our History. Our Brokenness becomes who we define ourselves to BE. It is what we have overcome; the Battles we have fought, the Battles we have been bruised, or beaten by. The Battles we still bear.

	It is the secret Scar that is never shared, but is always present. It is the failures of our Past, the furious fight for our Future. It is the Giant Goliath we meet in the mirror every morning, and yet we see it as ourselves.

	We know nothing apart from it. We are the Brokenness we Believe in our Heart. It is the Pain that pushes us forward on a path to restitution, or to resolution. It becomes our Identity, Righteous or not. We are Believing Brokenness. We own it. 

	The Sufferings we suffer, become the Brokenness we Believe. We live, and Breathe, the Battles we fight. They are the passion of our Purpose. We live within an Abusive place, stealing our face, stealing our Voice. We live within an Invisible War, against the Traumas we have survived in silence. 

	We live within the symptoms of a Sickness. We deal daily with a diagnosis of a Disorder, or a Disease. We are defined by our own survival. We are Survivors. We are Warriors. Yet, we are weary of the War. The War becomes the weapon we are crushed under.

	We live within the sufferings of a Broken Body, or a broken Bone, isolated, and battling the fight all alone. Waiting for recovery, and trapped in a place of Brokenness, often leading  to Hopelessness. Crushed by the crushing. We live, and Breathe, and Believe Brokenness. 

	We have not understood the Spiritual Reality of the Brokenness we believe, nor have we known how to be beyond it. Therefore, as a Broken Body of Believers, we BECOME what we Believe. We stop Believing the Beautiful. We stop Believing in the Word of God. We stop believing in the Healing Heart of Heaven. And we hold Hatred in our Hearts. 

	We stop Believing the Beautiful, and we begin Believing Brokenness. We believe the Brokenness because we have lived the Brokenness. We BECOME what we Believe. We ARE what we Believe in our Hearts. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he…” “As a woman thinketh in her heart, so is she.” Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)

	We have become Spiritually Sick Soldiers. We have become Weary & Wounded Warriors. We have become Physically Broken Believers. We have become the Broken Body of Christ. We have BECOME what we BELIEVE in our Hearts. 

	We are hoping for our Healing, and yet we are not Healed. We are left hopeless in our Hearts. We are weary in well doing, because we are bearing the Burden of the Broken, and yet WE ARE The Broken.

	We are Believing Brokenness. We have not understood the Spiritual Reality of our Brokenness. Therefore, we have not been Healed Emotionally. We have not been Healed Physically. We have not been Healed Spiritually. 

	We are Bound by it again, and again, and again. Trapped within the Bondage of our own symptoms. Suffering, and hating ourselves in our Hearts. Suffering, and hating God in our Hearts. Suffering, and separating ourselves from the LOVE of God, from the LOVE we so desperately desire.

	We are suffering from Spiritual Blindness. We have not understood the Spiritual Reality of our Healing, even as Faithful Followers of Christ, therefore we are prayed for, and yet we are not Healed. We are anointed with oil, and yet we are not Healed. My Beautiful, beloved Pastors, Preachers, Ministers, and Teachers, in the Body of Christ, have not understood Spiritual Issues of the Heart, or Biblical Principles of Healing. They have not been taught. They have not Believed. They have not sought. They have not Received.

 	There are so many Beautiful Believers who are dying in their Disease. There are so many who are Living Broken in the Body of Christ who have left the Church. Hurt, disillusioned, disappointed, and Unbelieving. All because of a lack of understanding concerning HEALING within the Broken body of Christ. They have put their Hope in Man, rather than in God. They have put their Hope in Man’s Wisdom, rather than in GOD’S WORD. 

	All HEALING is Spiritual first. All LIFE begins and ends with God, therefore, all Healing begins and ends with God. This means ALL HEALING begins the same because Healing begins in the Heart. The Brokenness of our Hearts, the Brokenness of our Physical Bodies, and the Brokenness of the Spiritual Body of Christ, are all a result of own, and individual Brokenness. They all are the result of our own, and individual Spiritual Health. 

	We are Believing Brokenness. Our Brokenness is our truest reality in our Physical realm. Our Physical senses tell us this. Our Physical symptoms tell us this. Our Physical circumstances tell us this. Our Psychological screenings tell us this. Our Doctor’s Diagnoses tell us this. Our X-Rays tell us this. We are Broken, Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually. We have become the Brokenness we Believe in our Hearts.

Romans 10:8 Tree of Life (TLV)

“But what does it say? The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart; that is the word of faith we are proclaiming:”

	Romans 10:8 (TLV)

 “But what does it say? The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart; that is the word of faith we are proclaiming:”


Psalm 34:11-14  (KJV)

11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.



A Season of Sorrow

Sleepless nights beget me
Tears are a constant friend
You alone can change my course
When will this Season end?

Suffering now my companion
Grief sustains my heart
This is only the beginning
Of the painful lonely part

How am I Lord, to serve you?
In this desperate place of mine
Each day a physical struggle
To take one step of this climb

Body Broken and Battered
By wars to Heal my heart
Sanctification has marred me
Crippled now from the start

Wounded by an Enemy
A Spiritual Battle ensues
Listening to the lies of the lost
I’m captured by the muse

Battling scars of rejection
Loneliness tears me apart
Calling me to the knees my failures
Only Love can heal my heart

Lost in a Season of Sorrow
My Brokenness calls me to You
Restore the Joy of my Salvation
Father, hold me until Your through

Believe the Beautiful!